Hydrophobic forces and the length limit of foldable protein domains

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 9851-9856

  Lin, Milo M ^a   Zewail, Ahmed H ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Folding funnel; Kinetics; Lattice model; Levinthal paradox

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; POLYPEPTIDE; WATER;

ARTICLE; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION;

AMINO ACIDS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS;

EID: 84862563497     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1207382109     Document Type: Article

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